PONCHA SPRINGS, Colo. -- A scout leader who was attacked by a bear as she slept at a campground early Tuesday maintained her sense of humor about the ordeal.

Vicki Myhnier, 44, of Richardson, Texas, escaped with bite wounds and bruises on her left hand and arm.

"I was scared he was going to take me into the woods and eat me," she said.

Myhnier planned to remain at the Packard High Adventure Base with her Boy Scout troop through Saturday as wildlife officials monitored bear traps baited with garbage, bacon grease and honey.

She maintained a sense of humor about the ordeal.

"You know, we got a choice of fly fishing, or climbing a fourteener, or whitewater rafting, or a two-day fishing trip -- bear attack was not on there," she said.

Myhnier's two sons, who were staying in adjacent tents, slept through the attack.

"They can't hear their alarm clocks, so why would they hear their mother screaming?" she said.

The 150-pound bear, which has been spotted in the campground over the last week, will be killed if he is trapped, Division of Wildlife spokesman Todd Malmsbury said.

Myhnier was sleeping with her tent flaps open when the bear entered and bit her at about 1:30 a.m. He backed off a bit after she screamed and huddled inside her sleeping bag, Malmsbury said.

The bear then came back, pulled her in the sleeping bag along with her cot out of the tent, he said.

Scout leaders who heard her screams yelled at the bear and threw stones at it until it ran off.

Camp director John Sallie said that he saw the bear about 20 minutes before it attacked Myhnier. Sallie said that he scared it off by throwing rocks, and thought that it had run off.

"Why this bear bit this woman we may never fully understand," Malmsbury said. The bear will be tested for rabies if it is captured.

The bear has apparently been drawn to the area recently by food and garbage left outside at a nearby rural subdivision, Malmsbury said. After the attack, the bear was spotted knocking over garbage cans there that were left outside for pickup the next day, he said.

It was the second bear attack in Colorado this month.

On July 9, a 16-year-old boy camping near Walsenburg chased away a black bear after it bit at his shoulder. The boy's uncle shot and killed the 130-pound, 3-year-old bear after it repeatedly returned to the campsite.

In the last 100 years, only two people have been killed by bears in Colorado.

Officials are worried there could be more run ins between people and bears this year. A late frost killed some bear food sources and more condominiums and vacation homes have been built in bear habitat in recent years.

"Too many people are too willing to help bears and give them a handout, training them to come to people and eat food," Malmsbury said.